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Russia to scrap Cold War-era nuclear submarines
Russia will decommission and scrap two Cold War-era nuclear submarines, a navy official said Tuesday. The official told RIA Novosti the submarines, among the largest ever made, are too old to remain on active duty and too expensive to retrofit. The Typhoon class vessels both carry nuclear missiles and are based in the White Sea. The Russian navy said they would be withdrawn by year's end ...
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Ukraine destroys Soviet-era missiles
A rocket engine airframe disposal facility was opened in Ukraine Tuesday to destroy RS-22 (SS-24) missile components under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The newly opened facility is in Dnipropetrovsk. RS-22 missiles were developed in the 1980s by the then Soviet Union. The nuclear missiles had a range of more than 6,200 miles "Over three years ago, the U.S. had agreed to ...
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Sports Vivian to miss Moscow championships
Athletics fans around the world will miss what has been an exciting clash between Cheruiyot and Ethiopian rivals -- Olympic champions Tirunesh Dibaba (10,000m), Meseret Defar (5,000m) and Meselech Melkamu, the former Africa 10,000m silver medalist. Cheruiyot, a Chief Inspector of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Unit (CID), said she will have a rare season off to be withn family, ...
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Putin hopes his talks with S Ossetian leader would help solve some of S Ossetia’s problems
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hopes his talks with his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov would help solve some problems facing the ...
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Russia says top insurgent killed in raid
Russia on Tuesday said that a top Islamist rebel, deputy to the country's most wanted militant Doku Umarov, was killed in an operation in the North Caucasus region, where Moscow is fighting a bloody insurgency. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, who helped organise a 2010 suicide bombing attack in the city of Vladikavkaz, was one of the two people killed in Tuesday's raid on a residential house in ...
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Boston Bombing Probe Heads to Russia
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MOSCOW – A delegation of American lawmakers will travel to Russia next week in part to investigate last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, ABC News has learned. The group, led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants to find out why a 2011 Russian request that the United States investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of ...
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Russian confidence growing in its vision for ending Syrian war
This citizen journalism image shows Syrian citizens gather over destroyed houses that were damaged from a Syrian forces air strike in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday. Russia believes that its long-held vision of how to achieve peace in civil war-torn Syria has at last become ...
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Russia- Rostelecoms net profit down 49 in Q1
(MENAFN) Russia's Rostelecom announced that its net income plunged by 49 percent in the first quarter from a year before to USD205 million, reported Reuters.The state-controlled telecoms operator added that the decline resulted from one-off gains in 2012's same period when the government ordered live video surveillance at polling stations during elections, in addition to higher ...
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North Caucasus Russia kills 2 suspected militants
In a house raid turned gunfight Russian security forces killed two suspected militants outside the capital of Ingushetia, west of Chechnya, on Tuesday. A spokesman for ...
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Wealth Fund Trio Each Investing $500 Million in VTB
expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, chief executive Andrei Kostin said. Azerbaijan's state oil fund SOFAZ, Norges Bank Investment Management and Qatar Holding are buying more than 50 percent of the offering of 2.5 trillion VTB shares on the Moscow stock market at 4.1 kopecks ...
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Lavrov Blasts Vote Theft at Eurovision
Jessica Gow / Reuters Dina Garipova of Russia performing at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday. Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts - alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest. Foreign ...
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Joint probe into Russias Eurovision votes stolen in Azerbaijan
17/05/2013 11:07 CET Russia and Azerbaijan are joining forces to investigate a Eurovision scandal that saw votes for Russia’s entry vanish. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described as ';outrageous'; the revelations by Azerbaijan that although its country’s voters had put Dina Garipova’s ballad second, she got ';nul points'; instead of ...
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Russian officer posed at Vladimir Putins desk to impress girls
Russia's federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee apparently posing behind Vladimir Putin's desk in the Kremlin, an official said on ...
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Russia’s Yekaterinburg needs to win over 80 votes to host EXPO 2020
MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - More than 80 votes are needed for Russia to have its city of Yekaterinburg win a bid to host EXPO-2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists on ...
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Russia allows 90 Georgian wines on its market
ST. PETERSBURG, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Ninety Georgian wines have been allowed on the Russian market, Russian chief sanitary doctor and head of the federal consumer rights protection authority Gennady Onishchenko said on ...
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Security Council chief to deliver Putin’s reply to Obama
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who has arrived in the United States on a visit, will deliver to President Barack Obama a message from Russian President Vladimir ...
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No crisis expected on Russian gain market in 2013 - Russian deputy prime minister
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Russia probes Moscow terror attack ‘plot’
Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than 40 in the Dagestan region, a province bordering Chechnya to the east."The decisive actions of the law ...
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Terrorist ‘military emir’ killed in Russia’s North Caucasus
Terrorism A key militant leader, described as the right-hand man of the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, was killed by special operations soldiers in a shootout in the North Caucasus, the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee said. Dzhamaleil Mutaliev, also known by the nickname 'Adam,' was killed in Nazran District of the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia on Tuesday. Mutaliev ...
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‘Rubber band’ bill Russian parliament passes ‘legally indefinable’ anti-blasphemy law
Scandal The Russian Duma has passed a second reading of a religious offense law that has provoked a firestorm of controversy. The legislation has been softened, but still represents a significant ramping up of punishments compared to existing laws. The second reading was approved overwhelmingly, with 304 Duma deputies voting for, only 4 against and 1 abstention. Still, several leading ...
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Council of Europe Head Calls for Visa-Free Russia-EU Travel
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - The visa requirement for travel between the European Union (EU) and Russia should be scrapped as soon as possible, Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Tuesday."My personal opinion is that Greater Europe without visas should be the common European idea," Jagland said in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's ...
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Russian Soldier Has Bullet Pulled From Forehead with Pliers
MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A soldier has been nicknamed "the Russian Terminator," after a video was recently posted on the internet showing a bullet being removed from his forehead with pliers.The footage, believed to have been shot during the Second Chechen War in 2000, was published on LiveLeak and YouTube a few days ago and has since gone viral.It shows a piece of metal, thought ...
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Russia Eurovision snub outrageous
Russia's foreign minister has called Azerbaijan's failure to award any points to Russia's entry in the Eurovision song contest "outrageous". Sergei Lavrov said the points had been "stolen" from Russia's Dina Garipova and "this outrageous action will not remain without a response". Azerbaijan says it cannot explain how it awarded no points to ...
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Moscow Attack Foiled Two Suspects Killed In Shootout
Sky News reports that two terror suspects were killed and a third captured after a shootout that took place in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The town is 85km east of Moscow, but Russian intelligence claims that the three people were planning on attacking Moscow in an unspecified manner. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee released the following ...
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Pakistan Roots Seen in Moscow Plot
Suspected militants targeted this week in a deadly raid outside Moscow as they purportedly plotted an attack on the city received training in the troublesome border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, law enforcement said Tuesday - an allegation that experts called a reminder of the threat posed by Russian radicals coached and sometimes financed from abroad. Special forces officers killed ...
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Russia relocating cosmodrome
The new Vostochny Cosmodrome to be constructed in Amur Oblast will save money and provide long-term stimulus to the province’s local economy, according to early material released to Russia news media detailing the government’s plans for the new site.
Russia has a long history of manned space flight and continues to operate one of the most advanced spaceports in the world. Our Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan remains the largest operational space launch facility in the world and was also the first in the world to be constructed and made operational. Read more
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